Revenge takes you nowhere, but love takes you where you should be.
After losing his hearing while firing a cannon during the Civil War, Cody came to Great Bend to nurse his ailing aunt who dies and leaves him a wealthy man. The people in town, especially the sheriff, treat Cody with cruelty, they call him deaf and dumb. They refuse to allow him into town to buy food and necessities.Along comes Iris to Great Bend to become the sheriff’s mail-order bride. When she sees how cruel he treats Cody and how he encourages the town to act the same, she is shocked. How can she marry such a man?
Cody and Iris become friends but then discover there was more behind the sheriff’s behavior than Cody’s handicap.
Cody and Iris fall in love but both are afraid to confess it to the other. The sheriff wants revenge and manages to separate them, perhaps forever. He sends Iris far away where Cody can never find her. Or can he?
Genre: Inspirational
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